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This is really good news.... DENTON Middle linebacker Anthony Wallace, a former Skyline standout who transferred to UNT from Oregon before last season, continued his rise during fall practice in a 124-play scrimmage. Read more: http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews.com/2014/08/former-skyline-linebackers-stock-rising-at-mean-green-fall-practice.html/

Anthony Wallace, a former high school All-American who began his career at Oregon, said Tuesday that he will likely enroll at UNT within the next few weeks. “UNT is my No. 1 right now,” Wallace said. “That is where I’m going to end up going. I am trying to enroll and schedule a sit-down with the coaches.” Wallace, an inside linebacker, was a three-year starter at Skyline and played in the Under Armour All-America Game. He was a consensus top 150 players nationally in the Class of 2011 and signed with Oregon. Read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2013/05/breaking-news-former-skyline-all-american-lb-likely-to-enroll-at-unt.html/

Anthony Wallace had a lot of options. He was offered scholarships by an honor roll of football schools, including LSU, Miami, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Texas, USC, Penn State, Notre Dame, Stanford, Auburn, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. He's been training to be a football player since he was 6. Rainier Sabin of The Dallas Morning News related the story in a February 2010 interview: Even back then, he demonstrated natural ability and a love of contact. His father, Anthony Sr., played middle linebacker at Texas Southern and began to groom his son to man that same position at age 6. Together, they spent summers doing calisthenics and drills that sharpened Wallace' instincts and enhanced his skills. If there was a weak area in his game, they would diagnose it and fix it. Over time, Wallace became a well-oiled machine who "loves just hitting," he said. He now is 6-2, weighs 220 pounds and can cover 40 yards in 4.55 seconds. "It's been a joy to watch," said Anthony Sr. "I think he will do better in the sport than I did." The younger Wallace doesn't talk much. He's a quiet kid in the locker room and off the field, a serious student with a 3.5 G.P.A. who chose Oregon partly for their Sports Marketing Program. Skyline coach Reginald Samples told Sabin, "He's so quiet that you don't know that he's around, until he puts his helmet on." He's modest, the reporter observed, and goes out of his way to deflect praise and share credit with teammates. Easy to do because he's played alongside some high-profile linebackers at Skyline, including Oklahoma signee Corey Nelson and Texas A&M signee Domonique Patterson his junior year, Franklin Shannon and Michael Moore with Oklahoma and Kansas State as seniors. On the field, Anthony is a mobile linebacker who loves to hit, a crushing, technically perfect tackler. He ranges and fills holes. He can drop deep into coverage. His father and the sophisticated high school program run by Samples, one of the elites of Texas 5A football, has given him a strong understanding of coverages, defenses, responsibilites. His team opened last season with a nationally televised game against St. Thomas Aquinas of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the Kirk Herbstreit National Kickoff Classic at Cowboys Stadium. His team lost to the powerhouse from Florida 31-3, but Wallace played well: read more: http://www.duckstopshere.com/articles/player-profiles/getting-to-know-the-2011-oregon-duck-newcomers-anthony-wallace.html

UNT appears as if it picked up a huge piece of its future and a potential replacement for senior middle linebacker Zach Orr today when Anthony Wallace said he’s almost positive that he will enroll at the school in the next couple of weeks. Wallace played two years at Oregon and had a role. He posted 13 tackles in 15 games at the school. The way the depth chart set up made it seem unlikely that Wallace would see that role increase significantly in the final two years of his career. Oregon’s middle linebacker and strong side linebacker were seniors last year, but the backups listed on the depth chart for the final game of the regular season were both redshirt freshmen. Wallace seems like he will have a great opportunity at UNT with Zach Orr graduating at the end of the year. Wallace will have a year to get ready, compete and secure a spot as the walk-in starter as a junior in the middle of UNT’s 4-3 defense. That looks like it will be a great situation for UNT, which needs to upgrade its talent across the board as it heads into Conference USA. Read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2013/05/follow-up-thoughts-on-wallace.html/